Were Josephine Baker still alive today, she'd be a hearty 105 years old. The first African-American female to star in a major motion picture, she was also famous for cutting a mean rug (see video above). So as you're doing whatever you do tonight, be sure to raise a particularly gorgeous glass in her honor.
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Arts & Letters
The U.S. Postal service will issue a series of stamps "highlighting the African-American cultural experience." Entertainment icons like Duke Ellington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Louis Jordan, Daniel L. Haynes will be featured. And it's not just men: Fredi Washington, Victoria Spivey and personal favorite Josephine Baker…
